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I have installed Ubuntu 9.04 on a virtual machine using VMWare Workstation. I have Windows 7 as my host OS.

I want to connect to internet from Ubuntu. Can anyone please gives steps for connecting to internet through guest OS?

Keltari
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Shekhar
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My solution was to delete and readd the network interface:

  1. Shutdown your VM
  2. Go to "Edit Virtual Machine Settings" and remove your network adapter
  3. Boot your VM and turn it off
  4. Open the .vmx file with your editor and delete all lines which start with "ethernet0"
  5. Boot your VM and turn it off
  6. Go to "Edit Virtual Machine Settings" and add a new network adapter
  7. Boot your VM and open a terminal
  8. Execute ip link. The output shows all the interfaces like this: 
    1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: ens33: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:0c:29:a5:cd:b6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
  9. Find your interface (ens33 in my case) and set it to up: 
    sudo ip link set ens33 up
  10. Let your interface search an IP Address: 
    sudo dhclient ens33 -v

Worked with Windows 10 Host, Ubuntu 19.10 Guest and VMware Workstation 15 Player.

Scott - Слава Україні
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bb1950328
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In your VMWare, go to Edit>Virtual Network Edits and create an add a new Network of type NAT.

Now, on your host goto Control Panel > Network & Sharing Center > Change Adapter Settings and look for your current connection that has internet access.

Right-click the network connection and go under Sharing. Allow the sharing and choose the NAT Network from the drop-down.

Now, on VMWare, go to the settings of Virtual Machine. Under Network, choose Custom Network and select the same NAT connection. Now, reconnect to check if the connection is established.

Reference [Video]: How to setup Internet Connection for Virtual Machines in VMWare

Luzan Baral
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Have you enabled a network adaptor in the VM settings? NAT is the simplest option but bridged mode just as easy to set up if you have a DHCP server running on the network.

Is the network running in the guest? Do you have an IP address? If not:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

If you have an IP address in the guest it could the firewall on the host is causing the problem.

bitslave
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So I am running Ubuntu version 22 on VM Workstation 16 Player running NAT network adapter that kept on dropping, and would need to constantly do @bb1950328's answer above to get it to run again but then I entered sudo dhclient ens33 into the command line and it would be able to reconnect automatically. When the VM later refroze I needed to reenter sudo dhclient ens33 but it reconnected right away. Hope this helps someone else.

super IT guy
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Workstation sets up bridge network VMnet0 for Bridge Networking for the guests. Bridged networking connects a virtual machine to a network by using the network adaptor on the host system. You can enable it by right click on your Ubuntu Virtual Machine or VM>Settings click on Network Adaptor and select Bridged, restart the guest if needed.

mygnu
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  • Select Bridged on VMvare
  • Install "VMware Bridge Protocol" to wireless adapters settings on PC.
  • Restart VMware
Scott - Слава Україні
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Tuncay Ince
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